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Buell has devoted most of his 46 years to foreign affairs, knows the world well. His background: Harvard teacher; president of the Foreign Policy Association; chairman of the FORTUNE Round Table; faculty member at Occidental, Princeton, Columbia, New School of Social Research; traveler; student. History in the next century, he believes, will be determined by U.S. activities in the next few years. Meanwhile, the histories of Messrs. Buell and Treadway, as well as that of the First Massachusetts District, will be determined in a ding-dong scramble in the next nine weeks. Last week Amateur Politico Buell seemed to have...
Died. Casper Warren Briggs, 96, pioneer maker and distributor of magic-lantern slides; in Atlantic City. His "slip slide," showing figures that moved across a background, was one of the earliest forms of the motion picture...
...stretched out over 70 minutes of pointless rambling music. Occasionally the familiar Shostakovitch brilliance and poignancy would glimmer for a while through the swamp, but never for long. For the most part, he had loosely strung together a collection of movie-scenario devices which might have been an effective background to a documentary film but were powerless in themselves to suggest more than confusion and weariness of spirit...
...acquired his first teaching experience in these cities. Among the 10,000 prisoners was a large number of university professors and college students who organized a miniature university within the prison walls. Kohn taught history, government, and philosophy, which, combined with his almost storybook adventures, gave him a perfect background for his later writings and teachings...
...background could hardly be more different from Mrs. Macy's fashion career. He played basketball at Iowa's Grinnell College, before going to Manhattan as a $45-a-month social worker. In those days he was shy, uncertain, socially awkward. But he learned fast...